Title Lena and the burning of Greenwood : a Tulsa Race Massacre survival story / by Nikki Shannon Smith ; illustrated by Markia Jenai.

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North Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint, [2022]

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2214875~S1

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Nichols Juvenile Fiction	J GIRLS	AVAILABLE

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Description	103 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Series	Girls survive.
Note	Ages 8-12. Stone Arch Books.
	Grades 4-6. Stone Arch Books.
Audience	Ages 8-12. Stone Arch Books.
	Grades 4-6. Stone Arch Books.
Summary	Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.
Subject	African American families -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- Juvenile fiction.
	Tulsa Race Massacre, Tulsa, Okla., 1921 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Massacres -- Oklahoma -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	African American neighborhoods -- Oklahoma -- Tulsa -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	African Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
	Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
	Greenwood (Tulsa, Okla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	Survival -- Juvenile fiction.
	Tulsa (Okla.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre	Historical fiction.
Added Author	Jenai, Markia, illustrator.
ISBN	9781663990563 lib. bdg.
	9781666329445 (paperback)

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